Wealth, Health and Character

Be Wise And Choose Character Over Riches

Material wealth cannot save a person on the day of destruction and death, but a good Character built on a foundation of a lifestyle pleasing to God will rescue a person out of it (Prov 11:4).

God is still in the buisness of rescuing people from death, those whom are pleasing to Him (Psa 116:8;68:20). So it is better to live a life pleasing to God than to live for self and die like a animal on the day of death. Understand that righteousness is better than riches in this mad world which is driven by materialistic madness. "Choose a good [character and] reputation over great riches; [always remember that] being held in high esteem is better than silver or gold." (Pro 22:1, NLT).

Don't over eat and lose the good health that God has given to you as a gift. Overeating is like killing yourself, so say no to your appetite by making a strong choice by the strength of the Holy Spirit (Pro 23:2). Eat moderately and choose nutritious foods like vegetables, fruits and cereals. Excerise daily by walking and praying for atleast half an hour to one hour, weight exercises and aerobics are also recommended. Health is precious next only to our spiritual life and therefore should be taken care of by us.

Above all is our spiritual life out of which our character is sculpted over a period of time. Character increases as the conscious of the presence of God increases. Good thoughts are chosen to be entertained according to our Character which we have built over a period of time. Character is worth more than rubies (Pro 31:10). If you are in pursuit of one thing, let it be a good character which has more worth for now and eternity ahead in the sight of God and man. Your character will one day decide whether you will fullfill the destiny of God in your life for your generation or not (Acts 13:36).

So understand the priorities in life. When your wordly friends wants to lose their virginity just to show that they are cool, avoid it. When your so called cool friends want to smoke, booze and act cool by the influence of the world system of thinking, choose character and say to yourself, 'It is cool to stay seperated from the so called cool stuffs which are actually injurious to my character and destiny fullfillment.' People who stay like this in the midst of all the temptations of the world will stay blessed more than all the people in the whole world and a divine light will be seen upon their words, throughts and actions for the GLORY OF GOD till they die and go on to be with the Lord forever.

Wealth is lost, nothing is lost,

Health is lost, something is lost,

If character is lost, everthing is lost.

So..

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character." — John Morley

"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece — by thought, choice, courage and determination." — John Luther

Much Blessings,

Abraham Israel

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Today's Weather Forecast

Facing Our Day To Day Spiritual Weather Forecast

No matter whether your weather is rainy, sunny day, hot and humid, stormy, gloomy and cloudy, because Jesus is reigning on the throne and is ruling the whole universe now, we can expect the SHOWERS OF BLESSING to come upon us.

When ever I have gone through some severe depressive gloomy days in the wilderness that God took me through in the past, one precious great promise He used to remind me to give great hope and joy to my heart. I will share it with you today and hope you will also be greatly encouraged like me through the quickening power of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord would remind me of this verse in Nahum 1:7 which says, "The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him." This really means that the good Lord becomes a active stonghold in the day of our trouble for us who trust in Him. In other words, the Lord who sees the trust in the recesses of our heart which we have in His power to deliver us from our financial troubles, broken lives and marriages, heart aches, bodily infirmities, starts to fight on behalf of us and automatically becomes our defensive stronghold against the evil plans of the devils and their depressive circumstances.

God used to remind me that though there are more than 7 billion people in th earth, yet he knows that I am trusting in Him. Never forget saints, the Lord will move over a million people to touch one heart that has faith and keeps trusting on His unfailing mercies. A great confidence would come to my heart every time God would say that. I began to understand that no one is able to understand what I am doing and going through, yet the Lord is watching all the things accurately from above and also knows every small details of the circumstances I am going through. The moment this thought would come that God is watching over the motives and intentions of my heart through out all my troubled days of wilderness, I knew within me that God is able to bring good times as a reward for trusting Him in the very near future. True to His word, God has brought not only good times once but also has repeatedly brought refreshing of great joy.

Not only that, our God continiously fights on behalf of us against our enemy. But the only things He is watching over us is to find whether our hearts are loyal to Him always or whether we are loyal to Jesus only when our heart are weighed with troubles of hopelessness and our bones are also troubled and aching (Psa 6:2-3)? If our hearts are loyal to God always, our soul will pant for something more of God through our troubled situations (Psa 42:1-2). Once God sees that our hearts are loyal to Him through all times in spiritual fidelity, whether good or bad, sunny or cloudy, depressive or happy circumstances, then God will arise and show Himself strong on our behalf to fight our enemies who keep trying to bring all the troubles to discourage our hearts (2 Chr 16:9).

I pray as we understand this spiritual secret to survival in tough times, may God's grace cover and comfort us in all of our lives journey.

Have a nice time ahead in His Presence!

MUch BLESSings.... :)

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Your End Will Be Glorious!!!

The End Matters The Most

"Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your latter end will increase greatly and abundantly." (Job 8:7).

This is a really a great promise of great hope from the Lord to every one of us. So it is not wrong to start as insignificant, because most of us start this way from the scratch because we are not all born with a golden spoon in our mouth. But it is a crime to stay that way without any change the rest of our lives.

All of our are born in different culture, geography and in different social settings. We are also born in differnt financial status and upbringing, but all of us have the same time given on earth by God to make a difference in our life and in the lives of others.

To really make a difference in the world, all we need to do is to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding to solve our day to day problems that arise. When ever we succeed, we should acknowledge that it is God who has done it for us. As we keep acknowledging the sovereign hand working and keeping our life intact, the Lord will start to direct our path (Pro 3:5-6). Praise the Lord!

When we keep walking in the direction of the Lord's path and become older and older day by day, our end will start to increase greatly. The end of our life will be more prosperous than we could dream about. Spiritual life is worth every ounce in gold because it is useful for life lived now and also for the after life in which we will be positioned according to our spiritual output produced in this earthly life.

SEEK GOD'S FACE AND LIVE IN THE CENTRE OF GOD'S PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE. I PROMISE YOU, THOUGH YOUR BEGINNING WAS INSIGNIFICANT BUT YOUR END WILL INCREASE GREATLY AND WILL BE GLORIOUS BOTH IN THE EYES OF GOD AND MAN.

MucH BlessingS...

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Blessings Unlimited Only Within Marriage

Blessed Beatitudes of Marriage

In today's world where a marriage ends with the honey moon, it is very important to READ AND WALK IN THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE BEATITUDES OF MARRIAGE, by the help of the heavenly power within us and as a result of it build a heaven on earth.

Read the following "Beatitudes of Marriage" which I found really interesting,

"Blessed are the husband and wife who continue to be affectionate, considerate, and loving after the wedding bells have ceased ringing.

Blessed are the husband and wife who are as polite and courteous to one another as they are to their friends.

Blessed are they who love their mates more than any other person in the world, and who joyfully fulfill their marriage vow of a lifetime of fidelity and mutual helpfulness to one another.

Blessed are they who attain parenthood, for children are a heritage of the Lord.

Blessed are they who remember to thank God for their food before they partake of it, and who set apart some time each day for the reading of the Bible and for prayer.

Blessed are those mates who never speak loudly to one another, and who make their home a place "where seldom is heard a discouraging word."

Blessed are the husband and wife who faithfully attend the worship service of the church, and who work together in the church for the advancement of Christ's kingdom.

Blessed are the husband and wife who can work out the problems of adjustment without interference from relatives.

Blessed is the couple which has complete understanding about financial matters, and have worked out a perfect partnership, with all money under the control of both.

Blessed are the husband and wife who humbly dedicate their lives and their homes to Christ, and who practice the teachings of Christ in the home by being unselfish, loyal and loving."

God has a special blessing and satisfaction for married couples. The married couples will be able to experience this blessing and also will be able to impart to others only if they are attuned to the voice of the Holy Spirit within them.

Why not open you inner ears and hear what the Lord has to say regarding your marriage and walk inline within the blessedness of the married life which He has prepared for you beforehand (Heb 4:9-11; Exo 19:5-6).

Remember saints, Patriarch Abraham was promised by God to be made a BLESSING so that in him all the families of the earth shall be blessed. God did not promise a individual blessing through Abraham, but a familial blessing to all the earth through him.

God's major blessings on earth is not for individuals alone (Isa 51:2), but it has been planned by God to reach families through blessed individuals who walk with God (Gen 12:1-3). Abraham obeyed God and has become a blessing to all the earth in Christ Jesus (Gal 3:16, 13-14), how about you dear Brother and Sister who has been called to live on earth as the kingly priest of God (Rev 1:5-6; Gen 12:4). You too have the potential within you to become a blessing to all the families of the earth if you continue to walk by faith in Jesus Christ's power which is the "steps of the faith which our father Abraham had." (Rom 4:12).

If you build a family by the grace of God and walk in the blessed "BEATITUDES OF MARRIAGE", then you might be blessed enough like Patriarch Abraham in all things and will be made a BLESSING TO THE WHOLE WORLD in the coming days (Gen 24:1)! You will be blessed in such a way to be a blessing to many that other's who are blessed through you will confess that God has blessed you greatly, like Eliezer confessed about Abraham his master later period of his life (Gen 24:35, 36). Come let us walk in it together and glorify God who has called us to inherit a blessing (1 Peter 3:9).

BLESSED MARRIED LIFE!

Much Blessings..... :)


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Mother's Influence Matters

A Mother’s Influence Cannot Be Wiped Away

The last influence a man forgets is the teaching of his mother. I was urging the early conversion of children in a meeting, and a man got up at the close and said, " I want to endorse every word". Sixteen years ago I was a missionary in another country, and my wife died and left three little children. On the Sunday after her death my eldest girl came to me and said, "Papa, shall I take the children into the bedroom and pray with them as mother used to?" The mother was dead, and little Nellie, ten years old, wanted to follow her footsteps. The father agreed and she led them off to the bedroom to pray.

When they came out he noticed that they had been weeping and asked, "what had happened?" "Well, father," said the little girl, "I prayed just as mother taught me, and then" – naming her little brother- "he prayed the prayer that mother taught him; but little Susie, she was too young, mother had not taught her a prayer so she made a prayer of her own, and I couldn’t help but weep to hear her pray." "Why," said the father, "what did she say?"

"Why, she put up her little hands, and closed her eyes, and said, "O God, you have come and taken away my dear mamma, and I have no mamma to pray for me now- won’t you please make me good just as my dear mamma was, for Jesus’ sake. Amen." And God heard that prayer. That little child before she was four years old gave evidence of being a child of God, and for sixteen years she was by her father’s side leading little children to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.

I remember blaming my mother for sending me to church on Sunday. On one occasion the preacher had to send someone into the balcony to wake me up. I thought it was hard to have to work in the field all the week, and then be obliged to go to church and hear a sermon, I didn’t understand. I thought I wouldn’t go to church anymore when I got away from home; but I had got so in the habit of going that I couldn’t stay away. After one or two Sundays, back again to the house of God I kept going. There I first found Christ, and I have often said since: "Mother, I thank you for making me go to the house of God when I didn’t want to go."

--D.L. Moody

Love Shared Through Prayer Brings Rest

Lifting The Burden Of Others, Makes Your Personal Burden Lighter

When I look back over those years in Siangcheng, China, there are two or three brief inner experiences that stand out vividly. Once I was jaded, dull, bored. Indeed, it was worse than boredom; it was fast becoming a depression from which I saw no way out. I felt hemmed in- there in the narrow compound with the ceaseless round of little meetings, of visits to women in small courtyards, of hours spent trying to teach some of them to read, and the lack of any mental or emotional stimulation.

There was a vacuum in my mind when I was weary, and there seemed no way to fill it. I was inwardly dry. I maintained my habits of Bible reading and prayer morning and evening, alone and also with , but I needed something more. I felt parched.

One day the barrenness of my own soul become intolerable. I knew I could not go on like this and, having half an hour to spare, I went to my bedroom, threw myself on my knees, and cried desperately, ‘Lord! Lord Jesus! You said, "If any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink!" And I’ve come! I’m parched and I want to drink.’

I waited expectantly, but nothing happened, so I cried again, with the same lack of result. I knew that only as I remained deliberately and consciously in the Lord’s presence could I expect the answer I longed for, but to remain there silent, trying to concentrate on God, was beyond me. My mind would wander, I knew. I must find a way to occupy it, and decided to pray for other people. Perhaps that was what I ought to be doing, anyway. I had a list of names and addresses of friends at home, so I got it out and went down the list, praying one by one for them, for about half-an-hour. Then I rose from my knees, went out into the courtyard and got on with whatever it was I had to do. There was no time now to think of myself. Other matters claimed my attention; and it was not until two or three hours later that it dawned on me that I wasn’t feeling bored or depressed any more.

Nothing noticeable had happened, there had been no upsurge of joy, but the dryness was gone. I was just quietly contented, back to normal, satisfied to be in the place where God had put me, doing what I believed He wanted me to do. It was as though, silently and imperceptibly, the waters had risen and the stream was flowing again.

That experience marked a new phase in my life, and illuminated me with a sentence which I came across at about the same time in the book of Job. As usual, when I was reading the Bible in theAuthorised Version, I saw the words, ‘And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends…’(Job 42:10).

I wasn’t focusing on the tribulations of Job, or the resentment he might have felt towards the friends who had misjudged him. But I knew what it was to have a mind in captivity to an unsatisfied desire, to the boredom of monotony, to be discontent with my lot. And I knew I had been released from that captivity after I had spent time with the Lord, praying for my friends. From that time on, I knew what to do when I found dryness and depression beginning to enfold me. Praying for others always had a liberating effect on me.

--Phyllis Thompson

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Guidelines for Abundant Living

Some Things To Follow

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy
5. Make time for prayer
6. Play more games
7. Read more books than you did in 2010
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9. Sleep for 7 hours
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day and....while you walk - SMILE!


Personality:

11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do ; keep your limits
14. Don't take yourself so seriously ; no one else does
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
16. Dream more while you are awake
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.


Community:

25. Call your family often
26. Each day give something good to others
27. Forgive everyone for everything
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day
30. What other people think of you is none of your business
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.


Life:
32. Do the right things
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful
34. GOD heals everything
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
37. The best is yet to come
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.


Last but not the least :

40. Do share this to everyone you care about.